The MANCHESTER Times Vol. 27 - No. 6
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─Photo By Bob Vosseller Bowker Memorial Field in Whiting was praised recently by Mayor Kenneth Palmer for its immaculate appearance. By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Mayor Kenneth Palmer spoke about the township’s summer recreation program during a recent meeting of the governing body. “Recreation is open and taking reservations for the summer programs and everything else we are able to offer. If you haven’t already
done so sign up at rec desk. It is a new online registration portal and it makes life a lot easier using it as opposed to the old way of drop and scroll,” the mayor said. He noted a resolution passed during the night’s meeting approving a company to come in to do striping work “at Bowker Memorial Field. A couple years
ago we installed an irrigation system to those fields and with all the limited play last year (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) the grass on the softball fields look immaculate.” “I’d like to applaud and thank our DPW (Department of Public Works) because if you go out there and look at those fields it is like
a professional softball field. The grass looks so nice and the fields look great. We are done with revitalizing that park. The striping and the painting is the last part of that process. It really is a nice park,” the mayor added. The mayor said, “I encourage everyone to go out to Bowker Field (Field - See Page 15)
No Remote Schooling In September
By Chris Lundy TRENTON – Gov. Phil Mu r phy an nou nced several large rollbacks in COVID-19 restrictions, the largest of which is that there will be no remote schooling option for any school district in New Jersey for the 2021-22 school year. One of the first huge
changes to life during COVID was that districts needed to provide remote education if they were not able to have social distancing or other safety protocols in place. Parents would opt out of in-person education, and the children would learn with live instruction being broadcast.
These lessons would be supported with work sessions at home. Come September, parents will not be allowed to opt out of in-person education, Murphy said during a press conference on May 17. With at least 70% of adults in New Jersey getting at least one shot of a vaccine already,
and children as young as 12 being able to get vaccinated, he said it would be safe for children to return to school. However, if there is a local outbreak, it would be handled locally. No Travel Advisory The travel advisory will also be lifted, Murphy announced.
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If someone is coming from out of state or if you travel out of state and come back to New Jersey, there no longer has to be a period of quarantine. This change is being made just before Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer for tourist areas. (School - See Page 4)
By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Following what is becoming a trend by communities in Ocean County, the Township Council is looking to ban the sale and cultivation of recreational marijuana. Councilmen Robert Hudak and James Vaccaro took lead on a committee to study the development of a plan to address the legalization of cannabis approved during a November 2020 ballot question. The governor and legislature gave municipalities a 180-day deadline to decide whether they would permit growth and sales of marijuana in their respective communities and if so how it would be implemented. Many municipalities are choosing to opt out of that. (Ban - See Page 7)
Committee To Reexamine Master Plan
By Bob Vosseller MANCHESTER – Councilman Sam Fusaro announced the restart of the township’s master plan review committee during a recent council meeting. A Master Plan is the long-term vision for the development of a town. It details what the town leaders want to see on parcels of land, how traffic should flow, and other items. By New Jersey law, the Master Plan must be reexamined every 10 years. It must include a Land Use and Housing element by law but may include other elements that are important to the community. “We started that (committee) last fall and stopped in mid-winter. There is no rush with reviewing the master plan. We still have four to five years to complete another update.” “We have probably gotten to a quarter or a third of what we wanted to get done when we started it. We’ve gone through a lot of the (Plan - See Page 24)
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